Interrobang Letterpress. Michael Babcock. 18 Kenton Road, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, USA. Tel: +1 6176201931. Website: https://interrobangletterpress.com.
Gwendolyn Jensen. We Owe the Dead the Truth. Jerrold Kappes, editor; Tom Tolnay, co-editor. 2023. 120 pages. 216 x 140 mm. Display face is Trump Gravur cast by Rainer Gerstenberg; text is Trump Mediäval set on the Linotype Model 31. The paper is 80T Mohawk Superfine eggshell, with three gesture illustrations by Helen Febbo printed from blocks, one pastel portrait tip-in by Susan Hicks Ford printed inkjet by Stephen Stinehour at Stinehour Editions. Printed on a Vandercook SP15. 200 copies: 125 softcover, French-sewn block, in duplexed Hahnemühle Bugra Blue /Mint green with an Oxford hollow, printed spine, and trimmed flush, price: $75; 75 casebound, quarter bound, flat-backed in Cialux “Slate” cloth and Hahnemühle Bugra Blue paper over boards and Hahnemühle Mint green end sheets with spine labels, price: $125. All handbound in house. Process can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/interrobang918/albums/72177720297912197. A letterpress printed prospectus is available.
Springtide Press. Jessica Spring. 818 N. Yakima Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98403, USA. Tel: +1 2536278629. Website: https://www.springtidepress.com.
Jessica Spring. One Liners. 2023. 74 pages. 9.375 x 6 in. Parsons on Mohawk Superfine with embellishers, festoons, and vintage cuts throughout for decoration and filling out page lengths, including an extra chapter featuring initials and monograms highlighted with several two-color specimens. Printed on a Vandercook Universal 1. 150 copies: Tue-mouche binding with Hook Pottery Paper Case covers by Gabby Cooksey, delivered in protective custom archival wrapper, price: $461. Features single line specimens from 238 metal typefaces in the collection at Springtide Press. Set daily from January 1, 2021 to April 6, 2022, the intent was to capture each day, from the most mundane and personal, to events unfolding in the world. One Liners is both journal and typographic specimen, revealing 461 days in the life of a printer, shared through her love of letters and wordplay. Three deluxe copies were bound by Donald Glaister, Gabby Cooksey and Susan Estelle Kwas.
Tudor Black Press. Hugh Macfarlane. 9 Rue de Frontenay, Lion de Marnes, Marnes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine 79600, FR. Tel: +33 (0)780586168. Website: https://www.tudorblackpress.co.uk.
Unknown. Arden of Feversham. 2023. 78 pages. 266×190 mm. Caslon Old Face on Zerkall off-white 145 gsm with 5 linocuts by Hugh Ribbans. Printed on an Albion hand press. 58 copies: 45 quarter bound in natural brown leather, with Fleur de Lis marbled paper on the boards, bound at the Tudor Black Press bindery, price: £240; 12 on handmade off-white Viceversa 140gsm, quarter bound in brown tooled leather with laced-on oak boards and housed in a drop back box, price: £470. The marbled papers for the special copies have a specially made Fleur de Lis design created by Papiers Prina in Brussels.
The Counter Press. Elizabeth Ellis and David Marshall. 3 Dower Cottages, Barrow Hill, Wick, South Glos. BS30 5RQ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)7725913618. Website: https://www.thecounterpress.co.uk.
Samuel Johnson. The Idler No.1. Elizabeth Ellis and David Marshall, editors. 2023. 12 pages. 257 x 170 mm. Diethelm on Velin BFK Rives Blanc 180 gsm. Printed on Grafix GX1N & Vandercook SP20. 50 copies hand bound at The Counter Press in deckle-edged Somerset Velvet Newsprint Grey 280 gsm with pink thread matched to the pink ink used. OP. Samuel Johnson began writing “The Idler” essays anonymously in 1758, publishing 103 over two years. Roused from idleness, we have chosen to republish some of these, beginning with ’The Idler No.1’ – the original text is accompanied here by definitions from Dr Johnson’s famous dictionary. Typesetting is by hand in various sizes of founders’ Diethelm, and letterpress printed in three colours. A 26-line condensed grotesque wood letter, giving the definition of an ‘Idler’, features on the inside covers.
